The Struggle for the American Curriculum,

Published in 1987, the first edition ofThe Struggle for the American Curriculumwas a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by these attacks.

Herbert M. Kliebard is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Preface to the Third Edition

ix

Preface to the Second Edition

xiii

Preface to the First Edition

xvii

Acknowledgments

xxi

Curriculum Ferment in the 1890s

1

(25)

The Curriculum versus the Child

26

(25)

The Curriculum of the Dewey School

51

(25)

Scientific Curriculum-Making and the Rise of Social Efficiency as an Educational Ideal

76

(29)

Some Subject Realignment and the Triumph of Vocationalism

105

(25)

From Home-Project to Experience Curriculum

130

(21)

The Great Depression and the Heyday of Social Meliorism

151

(24)

The Hybridization of the Curriculum

175

(25)

The Mounting Challenge to the Subject Curriculum

200

(22)

The State of School Subjects at Midcentury

222

(28)

Life Adjustment Education and the End of an Era

250

(21)

Afterword

271

(22)

References

293

(24)

Index

317

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The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

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